Mating Behaviour - Data, Videos and Pics

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From Leopard Hills:

Beautiful Scotia female leopard trailing Nyeleti.

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This morning we followed Nyeleti and Scotia. She was trying her best to entice him to mate with her...

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I think this highlights one of the differences between leopards and the other big cats.

Here, it's the males who decided when to mate, not the females. And not just that, but it's the female who has to "do the work" of seduction in order to convince him to mate with her. Leopardesses move out of their own territory, even invanding territories of rival females just to find the leopard they want.

In both of this instances, the roles are reversed as to what happens in the rest of the big cats, at least of what I'm aware of.

If you have a different opinion in the case of tigers, please share it, but I'm sure than in the Jaguars case it's the males who make the advances. And of course, the lion is the typical case, with them making the seductin in bad tempered lionesses snarling at them to back off.

Personally, I think we men, that usually behave like lions in this respect, should take several notes from the leopard's example to level the field... Reply